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Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint 'El Station, Interior' NYC Subway, WPA Artist
By Anthony Velonis
Located in Surfside, FL
.
Velonis introduced silkscreen printing to the Poster Division of the WPA. As he recalled in a 1965
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
images of Jewish life. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
By James McCracken
Located in New York, NY
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
James McCracken
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Alkyd, Board
Itzhak Holtz (Judaica Master) Oil Painting Portrait John Sloan Ashcan Artist WPA
By Itshak Holtz
Located in Surfside, FL
Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, where he primarily studied lettering and poster work in a program
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
William Gropper
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Ben Shahn Original Hand Signed Litho WPA Artist Rilke Poem Lithograph Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Projects (WPA) and proposal for the Municipal Art Commission were all failures. Fortunately, in 1935, Shahn
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
POSTER SIZE MEXICAN LINOCUT - DESPERTAR (Awakening)
By Adolfo Mexiac
Located in Santa Monica, CA
monumental subject and size. $1,250
Mexican Prints, WPA, Labor, Woodcuts, Posters
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
"Door County, Wisconsin, " Landscape Silkscreen Travel Poster
By Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices.
Schomer Lichtner was well known for his whimsical cows
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Screen
James Brooks at Martha Jackson gallery (rare Abstract Expressionist poster)
By James Brooks
Located in New York, NY
James Brooks
James Brooks at Martha Jackson gallery (rare Abstract Expressionist poster), 1972
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Satyrical poster Visit the landscapes of Afghanistan and hunt Osama Bin Laden
Located in PARIS, FR
This poster is based on the design of a campaign created by the WPA (Works Progress Administration
Category
Early 2000s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Offset
Abstract Expressionist Hyman Bloom Judaica Hand Signed Poster Rabbi with Torah
By Hyman Bloom
Located in Surfside, FL
worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA), He shared a
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
THE BUILDERS 1985 National Urban League, 1st Edition, Men Working Construction
By Jacob Lawrence
Located in Union City, NJ
JACOB LAWRENCE
THE BUILDERS 1985
Commemorative Poster - National Urban League 75th Anniversary 1910
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Touchdown, Early Football Player being tacked
By Charles Verschuuren
Located in Miami, FL
Amsterdam and Paris before creating hundreds of posters, fliers, and advertisements for large firms such as
Category
1920s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Football Game Brooklyn Eagle's Sunday Magazine Cover
By Charles Verschuuren
Located in Miami, FL
Amsterdam and Paris before creating hundreds of posters, fliers, and advertisements for large firms such as
Category
1920s Cubist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Anthony Velonis, Exhibit, Small Sculpture
By Anthony Velonis
Located in New York, NY
Mayor LaGuardia's NYC Poster Project as an economical improvement on the lithographic process, and then
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Mixed Media Sculptural Painting "Unicorn" Chicago Jewish Modernist
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Mixed Media Modernist Sculptural Judaica Painting SHABBAT CANDLES
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
William McBride "Daumier Heads" Original Oil on Canvas 20th c.
Located in San Francisco, CA
art institution sparked by the WPA.
His art collection once included more than 1,000 paintings from
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H 19.5 in W 44.5 in D 2 in
Two Lines Excentric Jointed with Six Angles, Offset lithograph signed/N 18/30
By George Rickey
Located in New York, NY
lithograph poster of renowned kinetic artist George Rickey, hand signed and numbered from the edition of only
Category
1980s Kinetic Figurative Prints
Materials
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
TEXTURES WITH GOLD Avant Garde Mixed Media Construction
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Mixed Media Sculptural Painting "Juggler" Modernist
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Guy Maccoy "City Beyond the Bluffs" Cityscape Oil on Board MCM
Located in Detroit, MI
Arthur Young.
In 1933 he started working within the WPA creating murals. The desire to more than one
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sunday Morning
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
as the one for the North Philadelphia Businessmen's Association, and posters in exhibitions and
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
of the school posters during his years there.
In 1917, Harry and Anna Bearden had a daughter
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Darkness (portrait of a young woman)
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
; Denver Art Mus.; Mus. FA, Houston; SFMA; PAFA. Commissions: true fresco, WPA, Hollywood H.S., 1935; oil
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Jasper Johns Exhibit Photo Whitney Mus
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
, where he designed posters for the Swiss National Tourist Office and Swiss resorts. The travel posters
Category
1970s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana & Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Projects (WPA) and proposal for the Municipal Art Commission were all failures. Fortunately, in 1935, Shahn
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana & Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Projects (WPA) and proposal for the Municipal Art Commission were all failures. Fortunately, in 1935, Shahn
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana & Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Projects (WPA) and proposal for the Municipal Art Commission were all failures. Fortunately, in 1935, Shahn
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana & Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Projects (WPA) and proposal for the Municipal Art Commission were all failures. Fortunately, in 1935, Shahn
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana & Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Projects (WPA) and proposal for the Municipal Art Commission were all failures. Fortunately, in 1935, Shahn
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
New York Harbor
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
was a project artist for WPA and became a pioneer for a new school of painting, the "California Style
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Chinese Theater, Los Angeles
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
project artist for WPA and became a pioneer for a new school of painting, the "California Style." His two
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
project artist for WPA and became a pioneer for a new school of painting, the "California Style." His two
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION Signed Lithograph, Children Jewish Holocaust
By Chaim Gross
Located in Union City, NJ
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION is a fine art limited edition commemorative poster by the American
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
No Reserve
H 28.75 in W 19.5 in
Boston Abstract Expressionist Hyman Bloom Original Pencil Drawing Martin Sumers
By Hyman Bloom
Located in Surfside, FL
NYC. The last two photos show a poster and a card from their shows. it is not included in this listing
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Two Nudes
Located in Des Plaines, IL
the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Illinois Art Project. Among his various WPA projects, McBride
Category
20th Century Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Rocky Coast (53-W1)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (53-06)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (56-14)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (52-13)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (61-100)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (55-W3A)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
untitled (52-51)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (53-5)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (62-05)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (51-51)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (62-12)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aftermath (55-19)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (61-101)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (51-42)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint 'El Station, Interior' NYC Subway, WPA Artist
By Anthony Velonis
Located in Surfside, FL
.
Velonis introduced silkscreen printing to the Poster Division of the WPA. As he recalled in a 1965
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Large Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint 'Under Riverside Drive' NYC WPA Artist
By Anthony Velonis
Located in Surfside, FL
silkscreen printing to the Poster Division of the WPA. As he recalled in a 1965 interview: "I suggested that
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
images of Jewish life. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
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